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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I feel like a broken record:

Yes, obviously, people are allowed to make their own choices. Not using the flashiest new toys and services is allowed. Acknowledging that fact is not useful. You telling people what they should and shouldn't do is not going to have a societal effect.

If you would like to propose some regulatory or incentive policy to nudge people toward simpler technologies, then that is a useful conversation. But just stating your opinion? Old man yells at cloud.

[–] Daft_ish 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, all this just to say I shouldn't have an opinion?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying that your opinion shouldn't exist, but some restraint would be advantageous.

Unless you think that statement is overly reductive, simplifying a nuanced subject to a flippant, self-indulgent remark that accomplishes nothing but ego-stroking

Some opinions provide valuable hypotheses which can promote thoughtful discussion regardless of their validity, like "A value-added tax would benefit the working class". Some opinions are hollow and useless, and serve only to make the commenter feel smugly clever for stating the obvious, like "Israelis and Palestinians should just get along".

Endless promotion of the latter is probably one of the most unnecessary uses of the Internet, muttering to oneself alone at home is a sufficient technology for that purpose.

[–] Daft_ish 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds like an opinion to me. Of course your opinion is more valid because you said it. Since you would never be a hypocrit incapable of self reflection. Certainly, at the very least, would be able to detect sarcasm. If by chance you came across it.

Let me know if you need me to explain it because I know how hard it is for you to comprehend simple ideas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Certainly, at the very least, would be able to detect sarcasm. If by chance you came across it.

The irony.

Unless you think that statement is overly reductive, simplifying a nuanced subject to a flippant, self-indulgent remark that accomplishes nothing but ego-stroking

[–] Daft_ish 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Two can play

Some opinions are hollow and useless, and serve only to make the commenter feel smugly clever for stating the obvious

Flinch much?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

So then you agree?